Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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971748 | Labour Economics | 2015 | 15 Pages |
•We examine if unionisation has a spillover effect on non-members' wellbeing.•We adapt the Social Custom Model of unions and conduct empirical analysis on a rich linked data.•The empirical analyses uses alternative methodologies and a sensitivity analysis.•We find that unionisation has a negative spillover effect on non-members' job satisfaction.•Subgroup analysis reveals that the adverse job satisfaction effect is specific to covered workplaces.
We investigate whether unionisation has a spillover wellbeing effect on non-members. To this end, we adapt the Social Custom Model of trade unions and conduct empirical analyses using linked employer–employee data on private establishments in Britain. We find that unionisation lowers non-members' job satisfaction, but the effect is confined to workplaces where pay is set through collective bargaining.